Name the most comprehensive textbook on Greek Mythology, the gods, the legends and the culture.
Also could anyone give a complete list of the major works from that time that refer to their own myths?
theoi.com
https://www.amazon.com/Brills-New-Pauly-Vols-Encyclopedia/dp/9004122591/
https://pastebin.com/17BuEyuq
The pleasures of mythology is reading the myths themselves, not a dry summary/textbook.
Read homer, hesiod, theognis and the Homeric hymns.
>>9909656
Edith Hamilton
Theognis has not much to do with myths, although there are theological elements in his work. Because he is an early poet, he is in the Penguin edition of Hesiod, but that does not make him a mythologist.
>>9909656
Ovid's metamorphoses is p good. It's an embedded narrative that runs through almost all of the span of classical myth.
>>9909780
That was more for the culture part of OPs request
Culture of Critique by Kevin Macdonald, it made me think about the subversion of the Aryan by the Judeo Christian jew a lot.
Is The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology "good"?
>>9909656
don't fall for the hamilton meme
best is hard
start with the greeks
>>9910736
why not?
Thanks guys, these are the books I'm going to get:
Homer: The Odyssey, The Iliad
Hesiod: Theogony, Anthology(Works and Days)
Ovid: Metamorphoses
First off, hello from Greece. I had to do my research on greek mythology and stuff, and I can tell you that this:
>>9909674
is really a legit website. This person did a fantastic and accurate enough job.
Also, this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Richepin
wrote a Greek Mythology that was quite easy and fast to read and it was almost everything major in a nutshell.
I got a copy in Greek of both tomes, I found both tomes online in French, here:
https://archive.org/details/nouvellemytholog01rich
https://archive.org/details/nouvellemytholog02rich
Keep in mind that many myths have a LOT of different variations on "how things happened" with other myths.
Thus as that guy suggested:
>>9909674
This website is your best source. For real.
Καλή μελέτη.
>>9910800
what do you think about mythology by edith hamilton?
>>9910897
>edith hamilton
>>9910800
Dame guy here again.
Well as always, I will be honest with you.
I never read her books, but it seems that she has done a magnificent job.
Her books are said to be a great start for College Students in the USA, and she was awarded for her work. by Greek Kingdom (we had a king back then) in 1957 awarded the Golden Cross of Good Deeds or something and was also awarded the Citizenship for Athens.
That kind of awards means that she did something really outstanding that does not insult Greece in any way but on contrary it was something deserving honor, so...
I have no opinion on her work since I never read it, I don't believe governments don't do mistakes, but it seems it is all right, because such a mistake would cause major problems to a king, so...
I assume she was okay. :)
>>9910937
ty for the response and for the sources.
also, i hope to go as soon as possible to greece
:))
>>9910941
Don't rush it, organize it well. :)
Take care hand have an enjoyable research.
Love from Greece.